Source: Mystic Fire Video

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documentary film on the work of Julian Beck and Judith Malina as the founders of The Living Theatre performance company. The title of the film is taken from the work of Antonin Artaud in his book on theatre theory called "The Theatre And Its Double".

It was produced by Mystic Fire Video as a project of the now defunct Mystic Fire Video bookstore in New York City. It was directed and edited by Sheldon Rochlin.

Signals Through The Flames contains first person interviews with Beck and Malina, archival footage of performances and street actions from various news reporting sources of the theater's political life in the late 1960's. Particular
attention is given to Paris in 1968 in a performance called "Paradise Now" and the occupation of the Odeon Theatre. Excerpts from the Company's filmed productions of original work "The Brig" and "The Connection" are also part of
the documentary.

Signals Through The Flames is the story of political action expressed through experimental theater and is for those archival purposes of theater history and lessons from the movement.

An entry for the film was made to The International Movie Database (IMDb).
citationhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0235764/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_1

Julian Beck died in 1985 of stomach cancer. Judith Melina continued to work as a director of The Living Theater in New York City until her death in 2015 at the age of 89.

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